CVE-2026-89496
UnknownSummary
In the Linux kernel, the ocfs2 filesystem has a memory leak during copy-on-write operations triggered by copy_file_range() within the same filesystem. The issue was found by fuzzing and occurs because deallocations are not always run on copy-on-write completion, leading to unreferenced memory allocations.
Risk Assessment
The memory leak can gradually exhaust kernel resources, leading to system instability or crashes on machines using the ocfs2 filesystem. In multi-user environments, it could be exploited to cause a denial of service.
Recommendation
Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2026-89496. If updating is not possible, consider limiting the use of the ocfs2 filesystem or monitoring kernel memory usage.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel (ocfs2)
See all- CVE-2026-89494Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the ocfs2 dlm_mig_lockres_handler trusted the num_locks and lockname_len fields from a DLM_MIG_LOCKRES message without validation. This led to an out-of-bounds read (BUG_ON panic) and a heap out-of-bounds write when copying the lock name into a fixed 32-byte object. Any node in the domain could trigger this.
- CVE-2026-89493Unknown
The Linux kernel ocfs2 module lacked validation of the rl_used and rl_count fields in the refcount block. A crafted or corrupted ocfs2 image with rl_used set to 0xffff causes an out-of-bounds read past the metadata block and a subsequent out-of-bounds memmove during a reflink (FICLONE) operation. Exploitation requires local access (CAP_SYS_ADMIN mounting a crafted image or raw write to the backing block device).
- CVE-2026-89492Unknown
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ocfs2 module due to missing validation of directory-index entry counts when reading metadata. The functions ocfs2_validate_dx_leaf() and ocfs2_validate_dx_root() do not bound the de_num_used and de_count fields against the block capacity, allowing a crafted on-disk image to set them to 0xffff and cause an out-of-bounds read past the 4KB metadata block. The flaw is reachable from any path lookup, stat() or open() on an indexed directory once the image is mounted.
- CVE-2026-89490Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the ocfs2 function ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el() on 32-bit kernels incorrectly computed the directory position mask, clearing the high 32 bits of the position. When readdir() crossed the 4 GiB boundary, the position was reset, causing infinite re-enumeration of already-returned directory entries.
Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: always run deallocs on copy-on-write completion Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak caused by doing 'copy_file_range()' within the same filesystem: unreferenced object 0xffff88812192c980 (size 32): comm "syz.0.49", pid 12095, jiffies 4294964143 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ c0 c5 92 21 81 88 ff ff 00 02 00 00 00 06 00 00 ...!............ backtrace (crc 7068d63f): kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline] ocfs2_find_per_slot_free_list fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6618 [inline] ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc+0x155/0x4b0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6786 ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6819 [inline] ocfs2_unlink_path+0x286/0x450 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2613 ocfs2_rotate_subtree_left fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2779 [inline] __ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x1f6f/0x2da0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2985 ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x283/0xe00 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3237 ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent+0xf56/0x1a20 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3825 ocfs2_split_extent+0x15f4/0x2940 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:5138 ocfs2_clear_ext_refcount+0x2f6/0x550 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3098 ocfs2_replace_clusters fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3131 [inline] ocfs2_make_clusters_writable fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3255 [inline] ocfs2_replace_cow+0x991/0x1660 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3349 ocfs2_refcount_cow_hunk fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3427 [inline] ocfs2_refcount_cow+0x5e1/0x9f0 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3470 ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write fs/ocfs2/file.c:2340 [inline] ocfs2_file_write_iter+0xbda/0x1880 fs/ocfs2/file.c:2451 iter_file_splice_write+0x890/0xf60 fs/splice.c:743 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:944 [inline] direct_splice_actor+0x232/0x480 fs/splice.c:1167 splice_direct_to_actor+0x4b4/0xb60 fs/splice.c:1111 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1210 [inline] do_splice_direct+0x10f/0x1c0 fs/splice.c:1236 do_sendfile+0x430/0xbf0 fs/read_write.c:1388 unreferenced object 0xffff88812192c5c0 (size 32): comm "syz.0.49", pid 12095, jiffies 4294964143 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 29 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 )p.............. backtrace (crc afec850f): kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline] kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1014 [inline] ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc+0x25c/0x4b0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6793 ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:6819 [inline] ocfs2_unlink_path+0x286/0x450 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2613 ocfs2_rotate_subtree_left fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2779 [inline] __ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x1f6f/0x2da0 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:2985 ocfs2_rotate_tree_left+0x283/0xe00 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3237 ocfs2_try_to_merge_extent+0xf56/0x1a20 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:3825 ocfs2_split_extent+0x15f4/0x2940 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:5138 ocfs2_clear_ext_refcount+0x2f6/0x550 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3098 ocfs2_replace_clusters fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3131 [inline] ocfs2_make_clusters_writable fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3255 [inline] ocfs2_replace_cow+0x991/0x1660 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3349 ocfs2_refcount_cow_hunk fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3427 [inline] ocfs2_refcount_cow+0x5e1/0x9f0 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:3470 ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write fs/ocfs2/file.c:2340 [inline] ocfs2_file_write_iter+0xbda/0x1880 fs/ocfs2/file.c:2451 iter_file_splice_write+0x890/0xf60 fs/splice.c:743 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:9 ---truncated---